Flavor Physics in the Quark Sector (2009)
Antonelli, M, Asner, D M, Bauer, D, Becher, T, Beneke, M, Bevan, A J, ...
In the past decade, one of the major challenges of particle physics has been to gain an in-depth understanding of the role of quark flavor.In this time frame, measurements and the theoretical...
Flavor Physics in the Quark Sector (2009)
Antonelli, M., Asner, D. M., Bauer, D., Becher, T., Beneke, M., Bevan, A. J., ...
In the past decade, one of the major challenges of particle physics has been to gain an in-depth understanding of the role of quark flavor.In this time frame, measurements and the theoretical...
Introduction to Monte Carlo Tools (2008)
V. Lendermann, A. Nikitenko, E. Richter-was, P. Robbe, M. H. Seymour
The CKM angle $\alpha$ at LHCb (2007)
Deschamps, O., Monteil, S., Robert, A., Perret, P., Machefert, F., Robbe, P., ...
The potential of LHCb in the extraction of the angle $\alpha$ from the analysis of the $B\to\rho\pi$ and $B\to\rho\rho$ decays has been studied. The expected performance is summarized in this...
The CKM angle $\alpha$ at LHCb (2007)
Deschamps, O., Monteil, S., Robert, A., Perret, P., Machefert, F., Robbe, P., ...
The potential of LHCb in the extraction of the angle $\alpha$ from the analysis of the $B\to\rho\pi$ and $B\to\rho\rho$ decays has been studied. The expected performance is summarized in this...
The CKM angle $\alpha$ at LHCb (2007)
Deschamps, O., Monteil, S., Robert, A., Perret, P., Machefert, F., Robbe, P., ...
The potential of LHCb in the extraction of the angle $\alpha$ from the analysis of the $B\to\rho\pi$ and $B\to\rho\rho$ decays has been studied. The expected performance is summarized in this...
Aubert, B., Abe, T., Abrams, G. S., Adye, T., Ahmed, S., Alam, M. S., ...
We report the observation of 823+/-57 B^0 and 970+/-65 B^+ decays to doubly charmed final states Dbar^(*)D^(*)K, where Dbar^(*) and D^(*) are fully reconstructed and K is either a K+/- or a K^0. We...
Alekhin, S., Altarelli, G., Amapane, N., Andersen, J., Andreev, V., Arneodo, M., ...
The HERA electron--proton collider has collected 100 pb$^{-1}$ of data since its start-up in 1992, and recently moved into a high-luminosity operation mode, with upgraded detectors, aiming to...
Alekhin, S., Altarelli, G., Amapane, N., Andersen, J., Andreev, V., Arneodo, M., ...
The HERA electron--proton collider has collected 100 pb$^{-1}$ of data since its start-up in 1992, and recently moved into a high-luminosity operation mode, with upgraded detectors, aiming to...
Measurement of the branching fraction and polarization for the decay $B^- \to D^{*0}K^{*-}$ (2006)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present a study of the decay B- -> D*0 K*- based on a sample of 86 million Upsilon(4S) -> BBbar decays collected between 1999 and 2002 with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy...
Measurement of the average $\phi$ multiplicity in $B$ meson decay (2006)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present a measurement of the average multiplicity of $\phi$ mesons in $B^0$, $\kern 0.18em\bar{\kern -0.18em B}{}^0$ and $B^\pm$ meson decays. Using $17.6 fb^{-1}$ of data taken at the...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
Using events in which one of two neutral B mesons from the decay of an Y(4S) meson is fully reconstructed, we determine parameters governing decay (\Delta\Gamma_d/\Gamma_d), CP and T violation...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present evidence for the flavor-changing neutral current decay $B\to K^*\ell^+\ell^-$ and a measurement of the branching fraction for the related process $B\to K\ell^+\ell^-$, where $\ell^+\ell^-$...
Measurement of the $B^0-\bar B^0$ oscillation frequency with inclusive dilepton events (2006)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We have studied the B^+/- --> J/psi pi^+/- and B^+/- --> J/psi K^+/- decays using a 20.7 fb-1 data set collected with the BABAR detector. We observe a signal of 51+/-10 B^+/- --> J/psi pi^+/- events...
Study of CP-violating asymmetries in $B^0 \to \pi^+\pi^-, K^+\pi^-$ decays (2006)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present a measurement of the time-dependent CP-violating asymmetries in neutral B decays to the $\pi^+\pi^-$ CP eigenstate, and an updated measurement of the charge asymmetry in $B^0\to K^+\pi^-$...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We measure the branching fractions of the psi(2S) meson to the leptonic final states e+e- and mu+mu- relative to that for psi(2S)-->J/psi pi+pi-. The method uses psi(2S) mesons produced in the decay...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present the results of searches for B decays to charmless two-body final states containing $\eta^\prime$ or $\omega$ mesons, based on 20.7 fb$^{-1}$ of data collected with the BABAR detector. We...
Measurement of the $B \rightarrow J/\psi K*(892)$ decay amplitudes (2006)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present a measurement of the decay amplitudes in B-->J/psi K^*(892) channels using 20.7 fb-1 of data collected at the Upsilon(4S) resonance with the BABAR detector at PEP-II. We measure a P-wave...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present a study of B- -> D^0_CP K^- decays, where D^0_CP is reconstructed in CP-even channels, based on a sample of 88.8 million Upsilon(4S)->BBbar decays collected with the BaBar detector at the...
Search for the radiative decays $B\to\rho\gamma$ and $B\to\omega\gamma$ (2006)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
A search for the exclusive radiative decays B --> rho(770) gamma and B0 --> omega(782) gamma is performed on a sample of about 84\times 10^{6} B\bar B events collected by the BaBar detector at the...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We report a measurement of the inclusive charmless semileptonic branching fraction of B mesons in a sample of 89 million BBbar events recorded with the BABAR detector at the Y(4S) resonance. Events...
Measurements of the mass and width of the $\eta_c$ meson and of an $\eta_c(2S)$ candidate (2006)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
The mass and total width of the eta_c meson have been measured in two-photon interactions at the SLAC asymmetric B-Factory with the BABAR detector. With a sample of approximately 2500 reconstructed...
Measurement of $sin^2\beta$ with hadronic and previously unused muonic $J/\psi$ decays (2006)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We report a measurement of the CP-violation parameter sin2beta with B^0 -> J/psi K^0_S decays in which the J/psi decays to hadrons or to muons that do not satisfy our standard identification...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present measurements of branching fractions in the b -> s s-bar s penguin-dominated decays B+ --> phi K+ and B0 --> phi K0 in a sample of approximately 89 million BBbar pairs collected by the...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We have used a study of the process e+e- --> mu+ mu- gamma at a center-of-mass energy near the Y(4S) resonance for a mu+ mu- invariant mass range near the J/psi mass to extract the cross section...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
Using a sample of 88.8 10**6 BBbar events collected with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II storage rings at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, we measure the branching fractions of seven...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
A narrow state, which we label DsJ(2458)+, with mass 2458.0 +/- 1.0(stat.) +/- 1.0(syst.) MeV/c^2, is observed in the inclusive Ds+ pi0 \gamma$ mass distribution in 91 fb-1 of e^+e^- annihilation...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present measurements of branching fractions and charge asymmetries for seven B-meson decays with an eta, eta' or omega meson in the final state. The data sample corresponds to 89 million BBbar...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We have observed the rare decay B0 => rho+ rho- in a sample of 89 million BB pairs recorded with the BABAR detector. The number of observed events is 88 +23-21 +-9, with a significance of 5.1...
Search for Lepton-Flavor Violation in the Decay $\tau^-\to\ell^-\ell^+\ell^-$ (2006)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
A search for the lepton-flavor-violating decay of the tau into three charged leptons has been performed using $91.5 \mathrm{fb}^{-1}$ of data collected at an $e^+e^-$ center-of-mass energy of 10.58...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We report a measurement of the production ratio of charged and neutral B mesons from Upsilon(4S) decays based on the ratio of efficiency-corrected yields for the charmonium modes J/psi K^+ and J/psi...
Measurements of CP-Violating Asymmetries and branching fractions in B meson decays to eta'K$ (2006)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present measurements of the branching fractions of the decays B+ -> eta' K+ and B0 -> eta' K0. For B0 -> eta' K0s we also measure the time dependent CP-violation parameters S and C, and for B+...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present measurements of branching fractions and CP-violating asymmetries in B0 -> rho+- pi-+ and B0 -> rho- K+ decays. The results are obtained from a data sample of 88.9 10^6 Upsilon(4S) -> B...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present a measurement of time-dependent CP asymmetries and an updated determination of the CP-odd fraction in the decay B0 --> D*+D*- using a data sample of 88 x 10^6 BBbar pairs collected by the...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present results of a search for $D^0$-$\kern 0.2em\bar{\kern -0.2em D}{}^0$~mixing and a measurement of $R_{\rm D}$, the ratio of doubly Cabibbo-suppressed decays to Cabibbo-favored decays, based...
Rates, polarizations, and asymmetries in charmless vector-vector $B$ meson decays (2006)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
With a sample of approximately 89 million BBbar pairs collected with the BABAR detector, we perform a search for B meson decays into pairs of charmless vector mesons (phi, rho, and K*). We measure...
Study of Time-Dependent $CP$ Asymmetry in Neutral $B$ Decays to $J/\psi\pi^0$ (2006)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
e present the first study of the time-dependent CP-violating asymmetry in B0 -> J/psi pi0 decays using e+e- annihilation data collected with the BaBar detector at the Upsilon(4S) resonance during the...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present measurements of branching fractions and charge asymmetries for charmless B-meson decays to three-body final states of charged pions and kaons. The analysis uses 81.8 fb^-1 of data...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We measure the B0 lifetime \tau_{B0} and the B0-B0bar oscillation frequency \Delta m_d with a sample of approximately 14,000 exclusively reconstructed B0 --> D*- l+ nu signal events, selected from 23...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
The neutral $B$ meson lifetime is measured with the data collected by the BaBar detector at the PEP-II storage ring during the years 1999 and 2000, with a total integrated luminosity of 20.7 ${\rm...
Observation of a narrow meson decaying to $D^+_s\pi^0$ at a mass of 2.32 GeV/c$^2$ (2006)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We have observed a narrow state near 2.32 GeV/c^2 in the inclusive Ds+ pi0 invariant mass distributionfrom e+e- annihilation data at energies near 10.6 GeV. The observed width is consistent with the...
Measurement of the $B^0 \rightarrow J/\psi\pi^+\pi^-$ branching fraction (2006)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present a measurement of the branching fraction for the decay of the neutral $B$ meson into the final state $J/\psi\pi^+\pi^-$. The data set contains approximately 56 million $B\bar{B}$ pairs...
Measurement of the Branching Fraction for Inclusive Semileptonic B Meson Decays (2006)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
A largely model-independent measurement of the inclusive electron momentum spectrum and branching fraction for semileptonic decays of B mesons is presented based on data recorded at the Upsilon(4S)...
Study of Inclusive Production of Charmonium Mesons in B Decay (2006)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
The inclusive production of charmonium mesons in B meson decay has been studied in a 20.3 fb$^{-1}$ data set collected by the BaBar experiment operating at the $\Upsilon(4S)$ resonance. Branching...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present measurements of branching fractions and CP-violating asymmetries for neutral B meson decays to two-body final states of charged pions and kaons based on a sample of about 88 million...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present a measurement of time-dependent CP-violating asymmetries in neutral B meson decays collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B Factory at the Stanford Linear...
Measurement of the Branching Fraction and CP Content for the Decay $B^0 \to D^{*+}D^{*-}$ (2006)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We report a measurement of the branching fraction of the decay B^0 --> D^{*+} D^{*-} and of the CP-odd component of its final state using the BaBar detector. With data corresponding to an integrated...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We have studied the B^+/- --> J/psi pi^+/- and B^+/- --> J/psi K^+/- decays using a 20.7 fb-1 data set collected with the BABAR detector. We observe a signal of 51+/-10 B^+/- --> J/psi pi^+/- events...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
The B0 lifetime has been measured with a sample of 23 million BBbar pairs collected by the BaBar detector at the PEP-II e+e- storage ring during 1999 and 2000. Events from the semileptonic decay B0...
Search for the rare decays $B \to Kl^+l^-$ and $B \to K^*l^+l^-$ (2006)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present results from a search for the flavor-changing neutral current decays $B\to K\ell^+\ell^-$ and $B\to K^*\ell^+\ell^-$, where $\ell^+\ell^-$ is either an $e^+e^-$ or $\mu^+\mu^-$ pair. The...
Search for T and CP violation in $B^0-\bar B^0$ mixing with inclusive dilepton events (2006)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We report the results of a search for T and CP violation in B0-anti-B0 mixing using an inclusive dilepton sample collected by the BaBar experiment at the PEP-II B Factory. The asymmetry between...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present a measurement of $D^0$-$\D0bar$ mixing parameters using the ratios of lifetimes extracted from samples of $D^0$ mesons decaying to $K^-\pi^+$, $K^-K^+$, and $\pi^-\pi^+$. Using 91 ${\rm...
Evidence for $B^+ \to J/\psi p\bar{\Lambda}$ and search for $B^0 \to J/\psi p\bar{p}$ (2006)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
Measurement of B $\to$ K$^{\star}\gamma$ branching fractions and charge asymmetries (2006)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
The branching fractions of the exclusive decays $B^0\to K^{*0}\gamma$ and $B^+ \to K^{*+}\gamma$ are measured from a sample of $(22.74\pm 0.36)\times 10^6$ $B\bar B$ decays collected with the BABAR...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
New measurements of Ds+ and Ds*+ meson production rates from B decays and from qqbar continuum events near the Y(4S) resonance are presented. Using 20.8 fb-1 of data on the Y(4S) resonance and 2.6...
Measurement of $B^0-\bar B^0$ flavor oscillations in hadronic $B^0$ Decays (2006)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We have studied the B^+/- --> J/psi pi^+/- and B^+/- --> J/psi K^+/- decays using a 20.7 fb-1 data set collected with the BABAR detector. We observe a signal of 51+/-10 B^+/- --> J/psi pi^+/- events...
Direct CP violation searches in charmless hadronic B meson decays (2006)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We search for direct CP violation in charmless hadronic B decays observed in a sample of about 22.7 million $B\bar{B}$ pairs collected with the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy $e^+e^-$...
Measurement of branching fractions for exclusive B decays to charmonium final states (2006)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We report branching fraction measurements for exclusive decays of charged and neutral B mesons into two-body final states containing a charmonium meson. We use a sample of 22.72 +/- 0.36 million B...
Measurement of CP-violating asymmetries in B0 decays to CP eigenstates (2006)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., De Bonis, I., Gaillard, J.M., Jeremie, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present measurements of the branching fractions and a search for CP-violating charge asymmetries in charmless hadronic decays of B mesons into two-body final states of kaons and pions. The results...
Aubert, B., Bazan, A., Boucham, A., Boutigny, D., De Bonis, I., Favier, J., ...
BABAR, the detector for the SLAC PEP-II asymmetric e+e- B Factory operating at the upsilon 4S resonance, was designed to allow comprehensive studies of CP-violation in B-meson decays. Charged...
Alekhin, S., Altarelli, G., Amapane, N., Andersen, J., Andreev, V., Arneodo, M., ...
The HERA electron--proton collider has collected 100 pb$^{-1}$ of data since its start-up in 1992, and recently moved into a high-luminosity operation mode, with upgraded detectors, aiming to...
Alekhin, S., Altarelli, G., Amapane, N., Andersen, J., Andreev, V., Arneodo, M., ...
The HERA electron--proton collider has collected 100 pb$^{-1}$ of data since its start-up in 1992, and recently moved into a high-luminosity operation mode, with upgraded detectors, aiming to...
Introduction to Monte Carlo Tools (2006)
Lendermann, V., Nikitenko, A., Richter-Was, E., Robbe, P., H. Seymour, M.
The activities of working group 5 ‘Monte Carlo Tools' of the HERA–LHC Workshop are summarized. The group concerned itself with the developments and tunings of Monte Carlo models in light of the...
Introduction to Monte Carlo Tools (2006)
Lendermann, V., Nikitenko, A., Richter-Was, E., Robbe, P., H. Seymour, M.
The activities of working group 5 ‘Monte Carlo Tools' of the HERA–LHC Workshop are summarized. The group concerned itself with the developments and tunings of Monte Carlo models in light of the...
Alekhin, S., Altarelli, G., Amapane, N., Andersen, J., Andreev, V., Arneodo, M., ...
The HERA electron--proton collider has collected 100 pb$^{-1}$ of data since its start-up in 1992, and recently moved into a high-luminosity operation mode, with upgraded detectors, aiming to...
Alekhin, S., Altarelli, G., Amapane, N., Andersen, J., Andreev, V., Arneodo, M., ...
The HERA electron--proton collider has collected 100 pb$^{-1}$ of data since its start-up in 1992, and recently moved into a high-luminosity operation mode, with upgraded detectors, aiming to...
Alekhin, S., Altarelli, G., Amapane, N., Andersen, J., Andreev, V., Arneodo, M., ...
The HERA electron--proton collider has collected 100 pb$^{-1}$ of data since its start-up in 1992, and recently moved into a high-luminosity operation mode, with upgraded detectors, aiming to...
Alekhin, S., Altarelli, G., Amapane, N., Andersen, J., Andreev, V., Arneodo, M., ...
The HERA electron--proton collider has collected 100 pb$^{-1}$ of data since its start-up in 1992, and recently moved into a high-luminosity operation mode, with upgraded detectors, aiming to...
Introduction to Monte Carlo Tools (2006)
Lendermann, V., Nikitenko, A., Richter-Was, E., Robbe, P., H. Seymour, M.
The activities of working group 5 ‘Monte Carlo Tools' of the HERA–LHC Workshop are summarized. The group concerned itself with the developments and tunings of Monte Carlo models in light of the...
HERA and the LHC - A workshop on the implications of HERA for LHC physics: Proceedings Part A (2006)
S. Alekhin, DESY Forschung Hochenergiephysik, G. Altarelli, N. Amapane, J. Andersen, V. Andreev, ...
Internal report | Preprint
S. Alekhin, DESY Forschung Hochenergiephysik, G. Altarelli, N. Amapane, J. Andersen, V. Andreev, ...
Internal report | Preprint
Introduction to Monte Carlo Tools (2006)
Lendermann, V., Nikitenko, A., Richter-Was, E., Robbe, P., H. Seymour, M.
The activities of working group 5 ‘Monte Carlo Tools' of the HERA–LHC Workshop are summarized. The group concerned itself with the developments and tunings of Monte Carlo models in light of the...
Introduction to Monte Carlo Tools (2006)
Lendermann, V., Nikitenko, A., Richter-Was, E., Robbe, P., H. Seymour, M.
The activities of working group 5 ‘Monte Carlo Tools' of the HERA–LHC Workshop are summarized. The group concerned itself with the developments and tunings of Monte Carlo models in light of the...
Measurement of the Branching Fraction for $B^{\pm} \rightarrow \chi_{c0} K^{\pm}$ (2005)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present preliminary results for the measurement of the branching fraction of the decay B+- -> chi_c0 K+- from a sample of 75 million BB pairs collected by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II...
LHCb Computing Technical Design Report (2005)
Antunes Nobrega, R., Franca Barbosa, A., Bediaga, I., Cernicchiaro, G., Magnin, J., ...
LHCb Computing Technical Design Report (2005)
Antunes Nobrega, R., Franca Barbosa, A., Bediaga, I., Cernicchiaro, G., Magnin, J., ...
LHCb Computing Technical Design Report (2005)
Antunes Nobrega, R., Franca Barbosa, A., Bediaga, I., Cernicchiaro, G., Magnin, J., ...
SPECS : A serial protocol for experiment control system in LHCb (2005)
Breton, D., Charlet, D., Robbe, P., Videau, I.
This document describes the SPECS protocol and its implementation. The SPECS is a 10 Mbit/s serial bus, designed to be simple, cheap, reliable and to work in radiation sensitive environments. It is...
LHCb Computing Technical Design Report (2005)
Antunes Nobrega, R., Franca Barbosa, A., Bediaga, I., Cernicchiaro, G., Magnin, J., ...
SPECS : A serial protocol for experiment control system in LHCb (2005)
Breton, D., Charlet, D., Robbe, P., Videau, I.
This document describes the SPECS protocol and its implementation. The SPECS is a 10 Mbit/s serial bus, designed to be simple, cheap, reliable and to work in radiation sensitive environments. It is...
LHCb Computing Technical Design Report (2005)
Antunes Nobrega, R., Franca Barbosa, A., Bediaga, I., Cernicchiaro, G., Magnin, J., ...
SPECS : A serial protocol for experiment control system in LHCb (2005)
Breton, D., Charlet, D., Robbe, P., Videau, I.
This document describes the SPECS protocol and its implementation. The SPECS is a 10 Mbit/s serial bus, designed to be simple, cheap, reliable and to work in radiation sensitive environments. It is...
The Les Houches Accord PDFs (LHAPDF) and LHAGLUE 575 (2005)
G. Altarelli (cern, J. Blümlein (desy, M. Botje (nikhef, J. Butterworth (ucl, K. Eggert (cern, M. Mangano (cern, ...
Measurement of the Branching Fraction for $B^{\pm} \rightarrow \chi_{c0} K^{\pm}$ (2004)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present preliminary results for the measurement of the branching fraction of the decay B+- -> chi_c0 K+- from a sample of 75 million BB pairs collected by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present a study of B- -> D^0_CP K^- decays, where D^0_CP is reconstructed in CP-even channels, based on a sample of 88.8 million Upsilon(4S)->BBbar decays collected with the BaBar detector at the...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
Using events in which one of two neutral B mesons from the decay of an Y(4S) meson is fully reconstructed, we determine parameters governing decay (\Delta\Gamma_d/\Gamma_d), CP and T violation...
Search for the radiative decays $B\to\rho\gamma$ and $B\to\omega\gamma$ (2004)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
A search for the exclusive radiative decays B --> rho(770) gamma and B0 --> omega(782) gamma is performed on a sample of about 84\times 10^{6} B\bar B events collected by the BaBar detector at the...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We report a measurement of the inclusive charmless semileptonic branching fraction of B mesons in a sample of 89 million BBbar events recorded with the BABAR detector at the Y(4S) resonance. Events...
Measurement of the branching fraction and polarization for the decay $B^- \to D^{*0}K^{*-}$ (2004)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present a study of the decay B- -> D*0 K*- based on a sample of 86 million Upsilon(4S) -> BBbar decays collected between 1999 and 2002 with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy...
Measurements of the mass and width of the $\eta_c$ meson and of an $\eta_c(2S)$ candidate (2004)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
The mass and total width of the eta_c meson have been measured in two-photon interactions at the SLAC asymmetric B-Factory with the BABAR detector. With a sample of approximately 2500 reconstructed...
Measurement of $sin^2\beta$ with hadronic and previously unused muonic $J/\psi$ decays (2004)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We report a measurement of the CP-violation parameter sin2beta with B^0 -> J/psi K^0_S decays in which the J/psi decays to hadrons or to muons that do not satisfy our standard identification...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present measurements of branching fractions in the b -> s s-bar s penguin-dominated decays B+ --> phi K+ and B0 --> phi K0 in a sample of approximately 89 million BBbar pairs collected by the...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We have used a study of the process e+e- --> mu+ mu- gamma at a center-of-mass energy near the Y(4S) resonance for a mu+ mu- invariant mass range near the J/psi mass to extract the cross section...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
Using a sample of 88.8 10**6 BBbar events collected with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II storage rings at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, we measure the branching fractions of seven...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
A narrow state, which we label DsJ(2458)+, with mass 2458.0 +/- 1.0(stat.) +/- 1.0(syst.) MeV/c^2, is observed in the inclusive Ds+ pi0 \gamma$ mass distribution in 91 fb-1 of e^+e^- annihilation...
Measurement of the average $\phi$ multiplicity in $B$ meson decay (2004)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present a measurement of the average multiplicity of $\phi$ mesons in $B^0$, $\kern 0.18em\bar{\kern -0.18em B}{}^0$ and $B^\pm$ meson decays. Using $17.6 fb^{-1}$ of data taken at the...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present measurements of branching fractions and charge asymmetries for seven B-meson decays with an eta, eta' or omega meson in the final state. The data sample corresponds to 89 million BBbar...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We have observed the rare decay B0 => rho+ rho- in a sample of 89 million BB pairs recorded with the BABAR detector. The number of observed events is 88 +23-21 +-9, with a significance of 5.1...
Search for Lepton-Flavor Violation in the Decay $\tau^-\to\ell^-\ell^+\ell^-$ (2004)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
A search for the lepton-flavor-violating decay of the tau into three charged leptons has been performed using $91.5 \mathrm{fb}^{-1}$ of data collected at an $e^+e^-$ center-of-mass energy of 10.58...
Measurement of the branching fraction for $B^- \to D^0 K^{*-}$ (2004)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present a measurement of the branching fraction for the decay B- --> D0 K*- using a sample of approximately 86 million BBbar pairs collected by the BaBar detector from e+e- collisions near the...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We report a measurement of the production ratio of charged and neutral B mesons from Upsilon(4S) decays based on the ratio of efficiency-corrected yields for the charmonium modes J/psi K^+ and J/psi...
Measurement of the Branching Fraction for $B^{\pm} \rightarrow \chi_{c0} K^{\pm}$ (2004)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present preliminary results for the measurement of the branching fraction of the decay B+- -> chi_c0 K+- from a sample of 75 million BB pairs collected by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present a study of B- -> D^0_CP K^- decays, where D^0_CP is reconstructed in CP-even channels, based on a sample of 88.8 million Upsilon(4S)->BBbar decays collected with the BaBar detector at the...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
Using events in which one of two neutral B mesons from the decay of an Y(4S) meson is fully reconstructed, we determine parameters governing decay (\Delta\Gamma_d/\Gamma_d), CP and T violation...
Search for the radiative decays $B\to\rho\gamma$ and $B\to\omega\gamma$ (2004)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
A search for the exclusive radiative decays B --> rho(770) gamma and B0 --> omega(782) gamma is performed on a sample of about 84\times 10^{6} B\bar B events collected by the BaBar detector at the...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We report a measurement of the inclusive charmless semileptonic branching fraction of B mesons in a sample of 89 million BBbar events recorded with the BABAR detector at the Y(4S) resonance. Events...
Measurement of the branching fraction and polarization for the decay $B^- \to D^{*0}K^{*-}$ (2004)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present a study of the decay B- -> D*0 K*- based on a sample of 86 million Upsilon(4S) -> BBbar decays collected between 1999 and 2002 with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy...
Measurements of the mass and width of the $\eta_c$ meson and of an $\eta_c(2S)$ candidate (2004)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
The mass and total width of the eta_c meson have been measured in two-photon interactions at the SLAC asymmetric B-Factory with the BABAR detector. With a sample of approximately 2500 reconstructed...
Measurement of $sin^2\beta$ with hadronic and previously unused muonic $J/\psi$ decays (2004)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We report a measurement of the CP-violation parameter sin2beta with B^0 -> J/psi K^0_S decays in which the J/psi decays to hadrons or to muons that do not satisfy our standard identification...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present measurements of branching fractions in the b -> s s-bar s penguin-dominated decays B+ --> phi K+ and B0 --> phi K0 in a sample of approximately 89 million BBbar pairs collected by the...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We have used a study of the process e+e- --> mu+ mu- gamma at a center-of-mass energy near the Y(4S) resonance for a mu+ mu- invariant mass range near the J/psi mass to extract the cross section...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
Using a sample of 88.8 10**6 BBbar events collected with the BaBar detector at the PEP-II storage rings at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, we measure the branching fractions of seven...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
A narrow state, which we label DsJ(2458)+, with mass 2458.0 +/- 1.0(stat.) +/- 1.0(syst.) MeV/c^2, is observed in the inclusive Ds+ pi0 \gamma$ mass distribution in 91 fb-1 of e^+e^- annihilation...
Measurement of the average $\phi$ multiplicity in $B$ meson decay (2004)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present a measurement of the average multiplicity of $\phi$ mesons in $B^0$, $\kern 0.18em\bar{\kern -0.18em B}{}^0$ and $B^\pm$ meson decays. Using $17.6 fb^{-1}$ of data taken at the...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present measurements of branching fractions and charge asymmetries for seven B-meson decays with an eta, eta' or omega meson in the final state. The data sample corresponds to 89 million BBbar...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We have observed the rare decay B0 => rho+ rho- in a sample of 89 million BB pairs recorded with the BABAR detector. The number of observed events is 88 +23-21 +-9, with a significance of 5.1...
Search for Lepton-Flavor Violation in the Decay $\tau^-\to\ell^-\ell^+\ell^-$ (2004)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
A search for the lepton-flavor-violating decay of the tau into three charged leptons has been performed using $91.5 \mathrm{fb}^{-1}$ of data collected at an $e^+e^-$ center-of-mass energy of 10.58...
Measurement of the branching fraction for $B^- \to D^0 K^{*-}$ (2004)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present a measurement of the branching fraction for the decay B- --> D0 K*- using a sample of approximately 86 million BBbar pairs collected by the BaBar detector from e+e- collisions near the...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We report a measurement of the production ratio of charged and neutral B mesons from Upsilon(4S) decays based on the ratio of efficiency-corrected yields for the charmonium modes J/psi K^+ and J/psi...
Measurement of the branching fraction for $B^- \to D^0 K^{*-}$ (2004)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present a measurement of the branching fraction for the decay B- --> D0 K*- using a sample of approximately 86 million BBbar pairs collected by the BaBar detector from e+e- collisions near the...
Measurement of the branching fraction for $B^- \to D^0 K^{*-}$ (2004)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present a measurement of the branching fraction for the decay B- --> D0 K*- using a sample of approximately 86 million BBbar pairs collected by the BaBar detector from e+e- collisions near the...
Measurement of the branching fraction for $B^- \to D^0 K^{*-}$ (2004)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present a measurement of the branching fraction for the decay B- --> D0 K*- using a sample of approximately 86 million BBbar pairs collected by the BaBar detector from e+e- collisions near the...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present updated measurements of branching fractions and CP-violating asymmetries for neutral B meson decays to two-body final states of charged pions and kaons. The results are obtained from a...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
Evidence for the $b\to u$ Transition $B^0\to D_s^+ pi^-$ and a Search for $B^0\to D_s^*+ pi^-$
Measurements of the branching fractions of charmless three-body charged B decays (2003)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present preliminary results of searches for charged B mesons decaying into the charmless three-body final states hhh, where h = pi or K, using 51.5 fb^-1 of data collected at the Upsilon(4S)...
Measurements of Charmless Two-Body Charged B Decays with Neutral Pions and Kaons (2003)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present preliminary results of the analyses of B into h pi0 and B into hK0 decays (with h = pi+/-, K+/-) from a sample of approximately 60 million BB pairs collected by the BABAR detector at the...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We report on the evidence for the decays B0 -> Ds+ pi- and B0 -> Ds- K+ and the results of a search for the decays B0 -> Ds*+ pi- and B0 -> Ds*-K+ from a sample of 84 million Upsilon(4S) decays into...
A Study of Time-Dependent $CP$ Asymmetry in $B^0 \rightarrow J/\psi\pi^0$ Decays (2003)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present our first study of the time-dependent CP-violating asymmetry in B0 --> J/psi pi0 decays using e^+e^- annihilation data collected with the BABAR detector at the Y(4S) resonance during the...
A Search for the Decay $B^0 \rightarrow \pi^0\pi^0$ (2003)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present a search for the decay B^0 --> pi^0 pi^0 by the BABAR experiment at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy B-factory at SLAC. Using approximately 88 million B bar{B} pairs collected between 1999 and...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present preliminary results of the analyses of B^+ --> h^+ pi^0 (with h^+ = pi^+, K^+) and B^0 --> K^0 pi^0 decays from a sample of approximately 88 million B bar{B} pairs collected by the BABAR...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present preliminary measurements of direct and indirect CP-violating asymmetries in the decays of neutral B mesons to pi+pi-pi0 and K+-pi-+pi0 final states dominated by the rho+- resonance, using...
A Search for $B^+ \rightarrow K^+\nu\bar \nu$ (2003)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present a preliminary search for the flavor-changing neutral current decay B^+ -> K^+ nunubar using 56 million Y(4S) decays recorded with the BABAR detector at the SLAC B factory. Identification...
Measurement of sin2$\beta$ in $B^0 \to \phi K^0_S$ (2003)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present a preliminary measurement of the time-dependent CP-violating asymmetry in the neutral B decay B0 --> phi K0S, with phi --> K+K- and K0S --> pi+pi-. The measurement uses a data sample of...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We measure the B0 lifetime tau_B0 and the B-Bbar oscillation frequency Deltam_d with a sample of approximately 14,000 exclusively reconstructed B0 -> D*- l+ nu_l signal events, selected from 23...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present a measurement of time-dependent CP asymmetries and an updated determination of the CP-odd fraction in the decay B^0 --> D^{*+}D^{*-}. The measurements are derived from a data sample of 88...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
A search for the exclusive radiative decays B->rho(770) gamma and B^0->omega(782) gamma is performed on a sample of 84 million BB-bar events collected by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric...
$b \rightarrow s\gamma$ using a sum of exclusive modes (2003)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
This paper describes preliminary results on the inclusive process b --> s gamma obtained from 20.7 fb^-1 of data recorded with the BaBar detector during 1999-2000. Signal event yields are found from...
Determination of the Branching Fraction for Inclusive Decays $B \rightarrow X_{s}\gamma$ (2003)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present a preliminary determination of the inclusive branching fraction for the rare radiative penguin transition B -> X_{s} gamma. The measurement is based on a data sample of 60 million BB pairs...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present measurements of the decays B0->Ds(*)+D*-, using data recorded by the BABAR detector in 1999 and 2000, consisting of 20.8 fb^-1. The analysis is conducted with a partial reconstruction...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
A preliminary result on the study of the inclusive electron spectrum in B -> X_u e nu decays above the kinematic limit for the dominant B -> X_c e nu transitions is presented. This study is performed...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present preliminary results from a search for the rare, flavor-changing neutral current decays B to K l+ l- and B to K* l+ l-, where l+ l- is either an e+ e- or mu+ mu- pair. The data sample...
Search for Decays of $B^0$ mesons into pairs of leptons (2003)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present a search for the decays B0->e+e-, B0->mu+mu-, and B0->emu in data collected at the Upsilon(4S) with the BABAR detector at the SLAC B Factory. Using a data set of 54.4 fb-1, we find no...
Measurement of the First Hadronic Spectral Moment from Semileptonic B Decays (2003)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
A preliminary determination of the first moment of the hadronic mass distribution in semileptonic B decays has been obtained as a function of the minimum lepton momentum, ranging from 0.9 to 1.6...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
The B^0 -> D^*-a_1^+ branching fraction has been measured with data collected by the BABAR experiment in 1999 and 2000 corresponding to a total integrated luminosity of 20.6 fb^-1. Signal events have...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present preliminary results of the analysis of B -> D0 h decays, with h = pi, K and the D0 reconstructed in the channels K- pi+, K- pi+ pi+ pi-, K- pi+ pi0 and in the CP eigenstate K-K+, using...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We report preliminary results of an experimental investigation of the color-suppressed decays bar{B^0} --> D^0 pi^0, D^0 eta, and D^0 omega. We measure the branching fractions B (bar{B^0} --> D^0...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
A Dalitz plot analysis of the D0 hadronic decays D0 -> K0 K- pi+, D0 -> K0bar K+ pi- and D0 -> K0bar K+ K- is presented. This analysis is based on a data sample of 22 fb-1 collected with the BABAR...
A Measurement of the B0 ---> J / psi pi+ pi- branching fraction (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, JM, Hicheur, A, Karyotakis, Y, ...
A Search for B+ ---> mu+ nu(mu) (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
A Search for the decay B- ---> K- nu anti-nu (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
A Search for B- ---> tau- anti-nu recoiling against a fully reconstructed B (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
Branching fractions in B ---> phi h and search for direct CP violation in B+- ---> phi K+- (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
Evidence for B+ ---> J / psi p anti-Lambda and search for B0 ---> J / psi p anti-p (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
Evidence for the rare decay B ---> J / psi eta K (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
Measurement of sin 2 beta using hadronic J / psi decays (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
Measurement of the B ---> X(s) l+ l- branching fraction using a sum over exclusive modes (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
Measurement of the average phi multiplicity in B meson decay (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
Measurement of the branching fraction and polarization for the decay B- ---> D*0 K*- (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
Measurement of the branching fraction for B+- ---> chi(c0) K+- (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
Measurement of the branching fraction for B- ---> D0 K*- (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Couderc, F, Gaillard, J M, ...
Measurement of the CKM matrix element |V(ub)| with B ---> rho e nu decays (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
Measurements of branching fractions and CP violating asymmetries in B0 ---> rho+- h-+ decays (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
Measurement of |V(cb)| using anti-B0 ---> D*+ l- anti-nu(l) decays (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
Measurements of the branching fractions of charged B decays to K+ pi- pi+ final states (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
Measurements of the branching fractions of charged B decays to K+- pi-+ pi+- final states (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
Measurements of the mass and width of the eta(c) meson and of an eta(c)(2S) candidate (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
Observation of B meson decays to eta pi and eta K (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
Observation of a narrow meson decaying to D+(s) pi0 at a mass of 2.32-GeV/c**2 (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
Observation of a significant excess of pi(0) pi(0) events in B meson decays (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
Observation of a narrow meson decaying to D+(s) pi0 gamma at a mass of 2.458-GeV/c**2 (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
Observation of B meson decays to omega pi+, omega K+, and omega K0 (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
Rare B decays into states containing a J / psi meson and a meson with s anti-s quark content (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
Rates, polarizations, and asymmetries in charmless vector vector B meson decays (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
Rates, polarizations, and asymmetries in charmless vector-vector B decays (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
Search for the radiative decays B ---> rho gamma and B0 ---> omega gamma (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
Study of time dependent CP asymmetries with partial reconstruction of B0 ---> D*-+ pi+- (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
Study of the decays B- ---> D(*)+ pi- pi- (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
Study of time dependent CP asymmetry in neutral B decays to J / psi pi0 (2003)
BABAR Collaboration, Aubert, B, Barate, R, Boutigny, D, Gaillard, J M, Hicheur, A, ...
Measurements of CP-Violating Asymmetries and branching fractions in B meson decays to eta'K$ (2003)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present measurements of the branching fractions of the decays B+ -> eta' K+ and B0 -> eta' K0. For B0 -> eta' K0s we also measure the time dependent CP-violation parameters S and C, and for B+...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present measurements of branching fractions and CP-violating asymmetries in B0 -> rho+- pi-+ and B0 -> rho- K+ decays. The results are obtained from a data sample of 88.9 10^6 Upsilon(4S) -> B...
Observation of a significant excess of $\pi^{0}\pi^{0}$ events in B meson decays (2003)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present an observation of the decay $B^{0} \to \pi^{0} \pi^{0}$ based on a sample of 124 million $B\bar{B}$ pairs recorded by the BABAR detector at the PEP-II asymmetric-energy $B$ Factory at...
Evidence for the rare decay B -> K*l+l- and measurement of the B -> Kl+l- branching fraction (2003)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present evidence for the flavor-changing neutral current decay $B\to K^*\ell^+\ell^-$ and a measurement of the branching fraction for the related process $B\to K\ell^+\ell^-$, where $\ell^+\ell^-$...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present a measurement of time-dependent CP asymmetries and an updated determination of the CP-odd fraction in the decay B0 --> D*+D*- using a data sample of 88 x 10^6 BBbar pairs collected by the...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present results of a search for $D^0$-$\kern 0.2em\bar{\kern -0.2em D}{}^0$~mixing and a measurement of $R_{\rm D}$, the ratio of doubly Cabibbo-suppressed decays to Cabibbo-favored decays, based...
Rates, polarizations, and asymmetries in charmless vector-vector $B$ meson decays (2003)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
With a sample of approximately 89 million BBbar pairs collected with the BABAR detector, we perform a search for B meson decays into pairs of charmless vector mesons (phi, rho, and K*). We measure...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present a measurement of $D^0$-$\D0bar$ mixing parameters using the ratios of lifetimes extracted from samples of $D^0$ mesons decaying to $K^-\pi^+$, $K^-K^+$, and $\pi^-\pi^+$. Using 91 ${\rm...
Study of Time-Dependent $CP$ Asymmetry in Neutral $B$ Decays to $J/\psi\pi^0$ (2003)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
e present the first study of the time-dependent CP-violating asymmetry in B0 -> J/psi pi0 decays using e+e- annihilation data collected with the BaBar detector at the Upsilon(4S) resonance during the...
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
We present measurements of branching fractions and charge asymmetries for charmless B-meson decays to three-body final states of charged pions and kaons. The analysis uses 81.8 fb^-1 of data...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We measure the B0 lifetime \tau_{B0} and the B0-B0bar oscillation frequency \Delta m_d with a sample of approximately 14,000 exclusively reconstructed B0 --> D*- l+ nu signal events, selected from 23...
Observation of a narrow meson state decaying to $D_s^+ \pi^0$ at a mass of $2.32 GeV/c^2$ (2003)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
The neutral $B$ meson lifetime is measured with the data collected by the BaBar detector at the PEP-II storage ring during the years 1999 and 2000, with a total integrated luminosity of 20.7 ${\rm...
Evidence for $B^+ \to J/\psi p\bar{\Lambda}$ and search for $B^0 \to J/\psi p\bar{p}$ (2003)
Aubert, B., Barate, R., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., ...
Observation of a narrow meson decaying to $D^+_s\pi^0$ at a mass of 2.32 GeV/c$^2$ (2003)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We have observed a narrow state near 2.32 GeV/c^2 in the inclusive Ds+ pi0 invariant mass distributionfrom e+e- annihilation data at energies near 10.6 GeV. The observed width is consistent with the...
Measurement of the $B^0 \rightarrow J/\psi\pi^+\pi^-$ branching fraction (2003)
Aubert, B., Boutigny, D., Gaillard, J.M., Hicheur, A., Karyotakis, Y., Lees, J.P., ...
We present a measurement of the branching fraction for the decay of the neutral $B$ meson into the final state $J/\psi\pi^+\pi^-$. The data set contains approximately 56 million $B\bar{B}$ pairs...